As Time Goes By story
A surfer receives a letter from his mother which she passes on before she dies which tells him to meet him 50 miles west of the small town of Dingo on a certain date in 1989, 25 years after the letter was sent.
13 total · 4 major · 9 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| extraterrestrial being | major | Mike helped a strange space alien recover its spaceship power unit. |
| father and son | major | The grand revelation of the film is that Mike was actually Ryder's son - the son that Ryder thought he'd lost to an errant cricket ball years prior. |
| romantic love | major | Mike and Connie fell head over heels for each other. |
| time travel | major | Mike used an alien device to hop around in time. |
| brother and brother | minor | J.L. Weston's henchmen the Kremin brothers. |
| coping with the death of a child | minor | Ryder was torn up inside over his young son having been struck dead by an errant cricket ball years prior. |
| human phobia | minor | A store clerk had a pathological preoccupation with keeping his shop clean of dust. |
| speculative spaceship | minor | A crashed alien spacecraft was disguised as a diner. |
| the dangers of radioactivity | minor | Mike was initially alarmed when it became apparent that the alien was radioactive, but the alien assured him that he was radiating at too low a level to be dangerous. |
| The Holocaust | minor | A time traveling alien claimed that he's tried to go back in time to prevent the Holocaust, but failed. |